CityNerd | U.S. High Speed Rail vs. the World -- International City Pair Twins for the USA's Top 10! @CityNerd | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
High Speed Rail in the U.S. is often seen as an infrastructure fantasy dreamed up by train nerds, zoomers, and assorted blowhards of every stripe who are far too invested in the study abroad program they did when they were 20.
But HSR is only a pipe dream if you don't realize that basically every other high GDP-per-capita nation in the world that has large cities has already implemented high speed rail.
This video compares the 10 most promising HSR connections in the U.S. to already-built connections between similarly sized and similarly distant city pairs all over the world. Take a trip around the globe and start dreaming about what fast and frequent train service could do for the United States!
Previous video - Top 10 Places to Build High Speed Rail In the U.S.: youtu.be/pwgZfZxzuQU
Acela resources:
Amtrak site: amtrak.com/acela-train
North Atlantic Rail project: northatlanticrail.org
California High Speed Rail resources:
California High-Speed Rail Authority (state website): hsr.ca.gov
CAHSR 2020 Business Plan: hsr.ca.gov/about/high-speed-rail-business-plans/2020-business-plan/#
Build HSR California website: buildhsr.com
Hanford Viaduct clip from "California High-Speed Rail Construction Update - Summer 2021": youtu.be/JjPI8FBrbCw
Texas Central resources:
Website: texascentral.com
Project Overview: texascentral.com/project
Travel times and frequencies -data sources
Google Flights: google.com/travel/flights
Google Maps typical car travel times: google.com/maps
RENFE AVE booking (Spain): renfe.com/es/en
Taiwan High Speed Rail booking: https://en.thsrc.com.tw/
Trenitalia Frecciarossa booking: trenitalia.com/en/purchase.html
Italo booking: https://biglietti.italotreno.it/Booking_Acquisto_Ricerca.aspx?Culture=en-US
Eurostar (incl London to Brussels): eurostar.com/us-en
Travel China Guide (China Railway): travelchinaguide.com/china-trains
Deutsche Bahn Intercity Express (ICE) Train booking (Germany): bahn.com/en
JR Central (Central Japan Railway) September 2021 timetable: global.jr-central.co.jp/en/info/timetable/_pdf/210901_0930.pdf
KTX Trains (South Korea HSR): https://rail.ninja/route/seoul-to-busan
Video credits:
Los Angeles: Video by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels - pexels.com/video/drone-footage-of-downtown-los-angeles-8319685
San Francisco: Video by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels - pexels.com/video/drone-footage-of-the-golden-gate-bridge-8320073
Acela photo in thumbnail shared via Creative Commons license, photo by das48, available at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ACELA_Express.JPG
License information : creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
High Speed Rail in the U.S. is often seen as an infrastructure fantasy dreamed up by train nerds, zoomers, and assorted blowhards of every stripe who are far too invested in the study abroad program they did when they were 20.
But HSR is only a pipe dream if you don't realize that basically every other high GDP-per-capita nation in the world that has large cities has already implemented high speed rail.
This video compares the 10 most promising HSR connections in the U.S. to already-built connections between similarly sized and similarly distant city pairs all over the world. Take a trip around the globe and start dreaming about what fast and frequent train service could do for the United States!
Previous video - Top 10 Places to Build High Speed Rail In the U.S.: youtu.be/pwgZfZxzuQU
Acela resources:
Amtrak site: amtrak.com/acela-train
North Atlantic Rail project: northatlanticrail.org
California High Speed Rail resources:
California High-Speed Rail Authority (state website): hsr.ca.gov
CAHSR 2020 Business Plan: hsr.ca.gov/about/high-speed-rail-business-plans/2020-business-plan/#
Build HSR California website: buildhsr.com
Hanford Viaduct clip from "California High-Speed Rail Construction Update - Summer 2021": youtu.be/JjPI8FBrbCw
Texas Central resources:
Website: texascentral.com
Project Overview: texascentral.com/project
Travel times and frequencies -data sources
Google Flights: google.com/travel/flights
Google Maps typical car travel times: google.com/maps
RENFE AVE booking (Spain): renfe.com/es/en
Taiwan High Speed Rail booking: https://en.thsrc.com.tw/
Trenitalia Frecciarossa booking: trenitalia.com/en/purchase.html
Italo booking: https://biglietti.italotreno.it/Booking_Acquisto_Ricerca.aspx?Culture=en-US
Eurostar (incl London to Brussels): eurostar.com/us-en
Travel China Guide (China Railway): travelchinaguide.com/china-trains
Deutsche Bahn Intercity Express (ICE) Train booking (Germany): bahn.com/en
JR Central (Central Japan Railway) September 2021 timetable: global.jr-central.co.jp/en/info/timetable/_pdf/210901_0930.pdf
KTX Trains (South Korea HSR): https://rail.ninja/route/seoul-to-busan
Video credits:
Los Angeles: Video by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels - pexels.com/video/drone-footage-of-downtown-los-angeles-8319685
San Francisco: Video by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels - pexels.com/video/drone-footage-of-the-golden-gate-bridge-8320073
Acela photo in thumbnail shared via Creative Commons license, photo by das48, available at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ACELA_Express.JPG
License information : creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
